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This article is an introduction to the special issue on family life transitions of children of
immigrants, i.e. the second generation. We will sketch a picture of the second generation in Europe, discuss the background of these groups, their position in European societies and their transition to adulthood. We furthermore introduce new questions with regard to
family life transitions and the study of the second generation. The availability of new data
on the second generation via the recent TIES (The Integration of the European Second
Generation) survey allow for a European comparative approach which is applied in several
of the articles in this special issue. The introduction to these data is followed by an
overview of the contributions and main findings of the papers in this special issue. Finally,
we reflect on some of the findings as well as their implications and present suggestions for
future research in the field.
Keywords: second generation; transition to adulthood; Europe; TIES